i've no idea if he's doing on vacation but she will be back in september. views any further tightening of us as the precursor to economic to washington announces new penalties over the poisoning of russian double agent. and his daughter in the u.k. . germany and the u.s. punitive trade moves saying tara will kill jobs and her global economic growth. also among the stories that shaped the week strike on a school bus in war torn yemen pills twenty nine children and injures dozens more while washington reaffirms its strategic military partnership with the saudis. we need a russian woman who faces imprisonment for terrorism following her husband to syria

where he joined islam mixtape. i told my husband that i wanted to go back and i couldn't leave but the moment i started talking about it we had fights he told me if you want to leave leave but i will not let you take the kids away. with the top stories from the past seven days and right up to the moment of. well this is the weekly on r.t. international hello and welcome this week washington state will impose new sanctions against russia over the poisoning of former russian double agent surrogate and his daughter back in march moscow has strenuously denied any involvement in the incident russia's prime minister sais the further tightening of u.s. sanctions on russia will be viewed as the start of an economic war moscow will have to react economically and politically the u.s.

measures will come in two runs the first places limits on financing an export especially on a number of enough. security goods the second wave in a run three months time will hit diplomatic relations as well as by king imports and the society to the story when it comes to global disagreement sanctions that the u.s. weapon of choice as russia's number two at the u.n. put it let us welcome the united sanctions of america well russia has been on the receiving end of plenty of them they stem from allegations of election meddling military aggression human rights abuses all cyber crimes take your pick and the latest well that's of the souls we're poisonings washington says it has to ten minutes that russia used a military nerve agent to attack form a double agent of paul and his daughter where are you getting the conclusion that her she's behind the screen poisoning i will leave it to others to characterize the current state of our understanding of the screen but others haven't given any

evidence either just various grades of highly likely is highly likely that russia was responsible we do hold russia culpable culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder and there's been uncertainty from specialists investigating the case. as she analysis. p.c. w.'s report i did to find the country. of origin of the agent used in this attack and we continue to see a sort of a series of corporate baggers here of insinuation that russia is involved which basically is a mood music which isn't feeding the population in the west with the idea yes it is the russians despite the evidence just a constant constant stream of these. people just accept oh yes it must be the russians therefore that's ok we have less important more sanctions it's time that we didn't get all the evidence but my suspicion is that as the going to happen all

the way that seems of little interest to washington which is found moscow guilty slapped it with new sanctions and strangely given its. ninety days to prove it wasn't involved or it will ratchet up the penalties to a whole new level with even talk of branding russia a state sponsor of terrorism regardless of trump wanting russia as a partner in his fight against terror and the toll so it doesn't seem to matter that the us itself is has a long history of consorting with groups branded as terrorists for instance america's support for the movement which techie label to terror groups organizing and attempted. sooner or later the united states will make a choice either to. either the. country markers. or how about the american officials here they are a nix tree miscreant then wish i had been. the headquarters of the islamic republic party there is

a viable opposition to the rule of the. position is centered in this room. and let's not forget how america stood alongside the afghan wish i had been in its battle against the soviet union only to see that group later form into al-qaeda the people we are fighting today we funded twenty years ago. does america dealing with these five and groups amount to sponsoring terrorism while the state department has a good answer for that i will leave it to others to characterize the current state of our own standing. senators in the united states have accused the government of contributing to another deadly saudi led coalition strike a school bus in yemen on thursday the red cross says twenty nine children were killed thirty others injured all under the age of fifteen the u.s.

state department called on the coalition to investigate but to that saudi arabia is a key regional partner. we call on the saudi led coalition to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident you also supply the tremendous amount of weaponry then the data for targeting to the saudis so that. sorry no lie wrong is that wrong sorry of these ladies over here laughing. and that i would refer you to the department of defense that is involved in that but you know as you know saudi arabia is an important strategic partner in the region to the united states video of the aftermath of the attack shows the extent of the children's injuries please be warn what we're about to show you is upsetting for me to watch the strike hit the north of the country which is under the control of the rebels so the arabiya launched an intervention against them into. the latest u.n. data sais that the majority of people killed in the conflict died as

a result of correlation or strikes that over ten dollars of. the red cross told r.t. that the situation in yemen is counterstrike. we have received twenty nine identified these are children up to fourteen years old and forty forty eight injured among them thirty children but for the overall top. this needs to be referred to the ministry of health and population of yemen humanitarian situation in the country is catastrophic it's a book relation that has been brought to the brink of collapse the health system is decimate the movement of population is growing because of. conflicts and hostilities going on so really do think that more hostilities and you know the expansion of those hostilities with

will exacerbate an already dire humanitarian situation even more we see violations cross the country and it's nice to. issue or speak about civilian casualties in a matter of less than a week so for us this is painful and whenever resubmitting casualties we i mean. this is just horrific. saudi arabia for its part say it will launch a probe into the incident and also defended its actions the targeting today is a legitimate military action conducted in conformity with the international humanitarian law to target the militants responsible for planning and targeting civilians which resulted in killing and injuring them we're back with more of the stories that made headlines right throughout the week here on r.t.

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to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. ten minutes into the program welcome back throughout the week we have been bringing you that series of special reports highlighting the fate and potential future is now of russians on their families who went to fight for islamic state in this episode medina cuts of a travels to southern russia to talk to a woman sentenced to six eight years excuse me in prison on terrorism charges that was after she followed her husband to surgery.

the clock is taking its current life sentenced to eight years behind bars for being part of different illegal armed group she won't actually go to jail until her youngest child turns full. teen and she's only one right now less than twelve months ago her life was old very different i was twenty nine when i left i went to turkey first with my husband i never thought i would end up there. within seven months as a good that was living in syria and pregnant with her child she said as her husband had been drawn to islam and a better life. he told me it was safe to go there he said it wasn't how it was being shown there was no bonding he said no war but the reality turned out to be fall morris than anything on t.v. they lived for two years in the city of topic which at the times was under isolates

control than they moved to rocca and she spent every day living in feet. so even my girl knew she was only eighteen years old but she could tell the difference what was coming and american her kids explain a fighter jet drone she could tell by the sound of it. where they hiding yes well they either went downstairs or just simply stayed at home they took them out into the hole and we laid on the floor so that any shrapnel wouldn't hit us zagat had struggles to share her story she tries to stay emotionally distant from the past speaks quietly rabbinate looking into the camera she says she wanted to return home right from the start i told my husband that i want to go back but i couldn't live at the moment i started talking about it we had fights he told me if you want to leave leave but i will not let you take the kids away i knew he was able to do that

he had that sort of character and i was afraid later on when they were living and rock her husband was killed in a drone strike leaving zagi dad old alone with three children i started looking for ways to get out but it's not that easy you can't just leave that place it all has to be done. in secret there are people that can sell you out trick i only talk to those who i knew well and one day i was told that there was this wrote that there was a way out. that claims she had no way dia the life she was leading would leave her on the wrong side of russia's anti terror laws. i stayed at home all the time i had my children i had no time for anything else i was at home taking care of my kids. she was one of the seven women and fourteen children brought back to russia in the autumn twenty seventeen as part of a companion organized by chechen officials to repaginate the families of men who

went to fight with islam ake terrorists. i am very grateful to everyone who helped launch this complaint to save many women and children. while they were lucky to escape from the war in syria upon arrival in grozny she was detained by police three months later she was convicted and sentenced for being part of an illegal armed group. and while the law she broke is designed to help thwart terror attacks some people argue that family members of radicalized individuals should not be targeted. these people need rehabilitation they need to be close to their family members under the care of their mothers they're under huge dress and prison will not help them it will only meet the more harsh i believe it's wrong to put them behind bars for now is that good at leaves with her mother in dagestan she has

to report to the police every month and can't leave the region it's difficult for both her and her brother to find work as they're on the official police list it means they will have to get by on their mother a small salary as a post office worker despite all this they could at san. she's just happy to see her children sing any more than to go i was literally suffering there because i was unable to provide food for my children he told me constantly mom we are hungry they were. at shows and now he's having a couple so let's go to the merry go round would let's go to the seaside now we go everywhere dumpty now we go everywhere. mommy is hard and so my lovely who say fuck. it was you. my gina gershon artie dagestan. yeah earlier in the week we are the two other episodes in that series about russian sisters followed in

a rocky orphanage and people desperate for news of family members that pledged allegiance to the terror group in case you missed them they're available now on our you tube channel. ok let's turn our attention now to the middle east where violence spiked through the week in the israeli palestinian conflict both sides exchanged heavy fire at least three people were killed including a pregnant palestinian woman and her eighteen month old child a strike on a cultural center in dallas the city also injured a further eighteen people i. i . really military a series of strikes only straight night or something else in response to

palestinian missiles being fired into israel. will be israeli defense forces reported that iran one hundred eighty rockets have been fired from gaza in the i.d.f. it's for tell you torie shelling targeted over one hundred fifty terrorist sites most of the palestinian strikes hit open spaces but at least two landed in this really time and injuring seven people and damaging property. there's also been violence all nice really gal's a border in ongoing demonstrations against the occupation of palestinian territory .

i. was. covering both europe and asian nations bordering the cusp in sea of signed

a historic agreement after more than two decades of talks russia run cals expand turkmenistan the five countries surrounding the world's largest body of water they've reached a diplomatic breakthrough on trade security and environmental issues a lot of our putin called the summit a milestone event the accord mit's military presence in the caspian sea only to certain areas close to the shore of the end of the summit the leaders released baby sturgeon into the water as a mark of friendship solidarity. social media how it operates has been in the spotlight again over the last few days numerous accounts belonging to libertarian and conservative figures in the united states have been banned accusing them of spreading hate speach. what matters are all of the stories we hear from all of you about the impact your connections have

had on your lives you can choose from an infinite range of topics that interest you and then easily follow that topic in the news countries and cultures that got together like yesterday. that was the online world as we used to know it all fluids to any of those pesky folks trying to set limits and two thousand and eighteen you'll be told to hold up if twitter decides there are sparts of your world that shouldn't be discovered what if you're keen to know what someone has to say let it be former u.s. diplomat peter van buren you might as well unfollowing your interests the man's profile is shut down for good because he jokingly wish someone had eaten the face of his opponent in a twitter rant honestly that's by far not the most offensive thing you can find online but what's abusive about showing mr van buren some support to users who did

so god bands to it's not about me it's not about the group of us who have band together i think it's a bigger issue and it's an issue that's that's raised his head this week people like us who are not part of the legacy media we're not new york times shapers of opinion we're also allowed to have our say so if someone from the new york times or the washington post put something up that we know is false we can refute it almost in real time that's very threatening i think for the powers that be this tendency to want to shut people down if they disagree with you is very dangerous it's going down a very slippery slippery slope toward totalitarianism there's a word for that see and ask. well someone saw it coming when even perhaps the most controversial online talking head alex jones was told get outta here by all major platforms we remove hate speach. to keep people safe after all they all have to stick to their own rules and keep people safe from hate speech

but then even those anti-left to the hate jones went on alert could be because they thought someone would click on their profiles and see a hold up pop up alex jones a bad guy but the problem is that once you start saying that hate speech is a rationale for banning people from social media you get in some very very big territory. i'm no fan of jones so among other things he has a habit of repeatedly slandering my dad by falsely and absurdly accusing him of killing j.f.k. but who the hell made facebook the arbiter of political speech free speech includes views you disagree with but there's no turning back when it comes to the online censorship evolution so i'm not sure it works like that anymore mr cruz plus people on the left are ecstatic bring it on is there a call and if it is even a crucial step forward in the fight against fake news and fringe extremism. info

was is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies the uses sites like facebook can use you to tear a nation of poets these companies must do more than take down one website the survival of our democracy depends on it the world is getting older and a bit more author a tarion only lately a top u.s. intelligence committee democrat has come up with twenty legislative proposals for keeping online platforms under a close watch brace yourself as you might soon have to say goodbye to things like anonymous posts or accounts that can be tracked down yeah that covers just two of the twenty. you know there's been so much reaction to those developments in the u.s. and further afield including from arvin vora who's hoping to be be an american the battalion parties next presidential candidate in the us he thing social media has deviated from its original purpose the idea of freedom of speech is

a legal protection that says the government cannot restrict any freedom of speech it doesn't say whether or not private companies can and what facebook and twitter are doing are ok legally morally it is absolutely reprehensible morally as leaders in communication twitter and facebook have a responsibility to encourage an open exchange of ideas not to give a huge buy to the established pros state pro status quo old ideas they need to give space to the ideas that challenges that that's what has made these what made these these media useful in their early days but today the media are not taking true to their early promise instead they are turning out to be just another tool of the status quo meanwhile donald trump has also fallen victim to the censors with his place on hollywood's walk of fame threatened.

he's doing just fine.

the city council or the council can ask for anything they want they have no jurisdiction it's the hollywood chamber of commerce they are the ones who decide pallywood itself is failing. oh and stories that people have been convicted of crimes and murtherer and mayhem and abuse and they've said no this becomes a part of history it goes to show you their trump their range syndrome has completely hit critical mass and they have all gone completely off the rails one of the most influential figures in the middle east there's our guest next on sophie uncool saeed but her account secretary-general of the palestinian liberation organization.

the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. crossing their fingers to us but the little sympathy i want to become lost not one that lasts for some just about but many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentries sides of the drug used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities best person asked bank of mom. mostly to point out that it up next time i get i'm in a lot of class and they want that. they cannot watch as they all choose to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house all. the who could be about to do. a said sit struggles of many couples. to which at the push to put impulse response both of you up as opposed to the hope of the.

politicians to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be rushed. into going to be cross with what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the house.

welcome to worlds apart as a popular american song goes there is no justice in the world and the palestinians may know it better than anyone else expelled from the land bad with empty statehood promises for seventy years and now shot at and killed and massed for the sake of providing security for israel is that likely to prompt any international response

beyond this condemnations well to discuss that i'm now joined by saber erika secretary general of the palestine liberation organization mr erekat there is good to talk to you at this critical moment thank you very much for your time and a pleasure now first of all let me express our deep felt condolences just as deeply felt rage a mass killing on the gaza border is there anything at this point that you can do to stop it first of all i appreciate your kindness and. your understanding of the situation and your condolences to the palestinian people we have witnessed the. massacre sixty four people work and thought only on armed in their land none of them cross the israel and israeli army sixty four and one to two thousand and five.